Southwest Decompression Raises Fatigue Cracks Issues
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The NTSB, in seeking the cause of a July 13 Southwest Airlines inflight depressurization, is looking at an area of fuselage skin not previously suspected as being vulnerable to fatigue cracking. On July 13, Southwest Flight 2294 was at cruise altitude en route from Nashville, Tenn., to Baltimore...
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